St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-27
STRAY SUNBEAMS.

Chicago is nothing if not sensational. And
what is worse, the ghastlier the sensation the
more delighted Chicago seems to be. There
is not another city in the world from which
press reports of the making of the shrouds for
the condemned anarchists would have been
sent out. In any other city the sheriff would
have quietly turned over the shroud- making
and the preparation of the burial caskets to
a responsible undertaking firm. But that
isn't Chicago's style of doing business. The
female prisoners in the county jail had to be
called on to do the shroud-making and it is
creditable to their humane instincts that
they rebelled against the barbarism of the
Cook county authorities.
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Public feeling against the anarchists is no
stronger than it was against GUITEAU, the
murderer of GARFIELD, and vet the District
of Columbia authorities never found it neces-
sary to exhibit such grossness in preparing
GUITEAU for the death scene as the Cook
county officials are doing in this instance.
The anarchists have been condemned to
death under the laws of Illinois. For the
sake of hum anity, if not for the good name
of Cook county, let the execution be done
decently and in order.
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RoBErT GARRETT's illness and withdrawal
from active business life has been q heavy
blow to Baltimore. The transfer of the man.
agement of the Baltimore & Ohio road was
not the only way in which that city suffers.
Mr.. GARRETT had made preparations to build
a luxurious hotel in the most fashionable
part of the city. Arrangements had been
made with GEORGE c. BoLDT, of Philadelphia,
to manage it. The property was bought AT
a large outlay fashionable houses were torn
H.
the construction to begin, when Mr.. GAR
RETTs illness caused an abandonment of all
his business plans, and the hotel. which was
to have been the finest in the South, will not
be built.
Mr.. GARRETT was also interested in the es-
adjustment of great sugar refinery in Balti-
more and was very anxious for its success;
but now he has withdrawn from that as well
as from other enterprises. There is one Bal
timore Institution, however, which Mr. GAR
RETT has not abandoned. 1t is the home for
sick and infirm employees of the Baltimore
& Ohio road, on which he has spent great
many thousand dollars and on which he
still proposes to spend good many thou
sand more.
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IGNATIUs DoNNELLY is the recipient of new
honors. He has been invited to discuss his
SHAKEsPEARE-BACoNh hobby before the first
meeting of the Nineteenth Century club
which will take place in the American Art
Galleries in New York Oh Friday evening"
Nov. 1S.
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''The mistakes of my life have been many
sings Gov. SwrNEFoRD in his far-away
Alaskan home as he pores over the pages of
Miss CLEvELAND's sensational novel. The
young authoress has gained notorety by her
novel way of squaring off an old score with
recreant lover but SwINEFoRD may thank
his stars that he didn't get her woman
who publishes her heart secrets to the world
in fit of anger is not the woman to make
perpetual sunshine in home.
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DAN LAMONT is clipper, he is. When the
struggling New York Democracy wanted
campaign funds DANIEL Clipped in like a
little man. If this is offensive partisanship
the opposition will have to make the most
of it.
The individual who wants to be the next
postmaster at st. Faul should begin to file his
certificate of fitness Postmaster DAYS term
expires in December, and there may be
good StPaul Democrat who would be willing
to step into the doctors shoes.